This was always going to happen eventually, wasn’t it? Wilsons, which opened on Chandos Road in 2016, has won a Michelin Star. The farm-to-table restaurant from Jan Ostle and Mary Wilson has built up legendary status in Bristol for using produce from its own two-acre garden – and now the rest of the world knows how food it is too.
Wilsons regularly writes a new menu based on what’s been harvested that week or preserved earlier in the year. Anything not homegrown is sourced from local and sustainable producers. Surplus produce is used in bread and bakery items, and sold at the nearby Wilsons Bread Shop every weekend.
Sustainability has long been at the heart of Wilsons’ ethos, which is why it already had a MICHELIN Green Star. But it now joins the Bristol elite, alongside Bulrush – which is known for blending Anglo-French cuisine with Japanese and Scandinavian influences – which also holds one Michelin Star. At the 2025 MICHELIN Guide Ceremony at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum in Glasgow on February 10, Jan Ostle was asked, why there’s such an exciting dining scene happening in Bristol? He answered, “People in Bristol. It’s good vibes.”
Through the winter, expect rhubarb to be used in dishes such as Mallard with rhubarb, beetroot and plum hoisin and Elderflower vinegar and rhubarb – an ingenious palette cleanser of savoury sorbet and Italian meringue – while homegrown Celeriac is slowly roasted and served with locally caught Monkfish, onion and fig leaf. Across every dish, Jan’s innovative, intuitive cooking and perfected techniques demonstrate the quality of their produce, with Mary’s background in biodynamic agriculture laced throughout.
Alongside an eight-course dinner menu, a set lunch menu is available Wednesday to Friday, including a selection of snacks, three courses and a glass of low-intervention wine, and remains accessible at £35, allowing more guests the opportunity to enjoy Jan’s creative, imaginative cooking. The full dinner menu will remain priced at £73, providing guests from Bristol and beyond with outstanding value for a Michelin-star menu of such quality.
Of the Michelin announcement, Chef and Co-Founder Jan Ostle says: “Mary and I feel incredibly proud to have received this honour from Michelin. Our goal has always been to create something that reflects our values and passion and that serves Bristol and our local community. This award is testament to the dedication of our entire team, as well as the incredible farmers, producers and the people of Bristol who continuously support us.”
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Any other winners?
The MICHELIN Guide Great Britain & Ireland also awarded three restaurants in Bristol for their great value dining aka Bib Gourmands.
Little Hollows
“There are few more comforting culinary joys than a good bowl of pasta. Simply delicious and deliciously simple, a top pasta restaurant is something to treasure. Lucky Redland, then, having this terrific operation amongst its dining scene. The pasta is made fresh every morning and the results are simply wonderful.”
OTHER
“The second in a trio of new Bristol Bib Gourmands, OTHER serves the kind of food that Chef-Owner Zak Hitchman loves to cook. That means a globally influenced, constantly changing selection of snacks and sharing plates all shot through with an original streak and a penchant for the bold – which is reflected in the dining room’s eye-catching, bright-orange walls.”
Tare Bistro
“The foodie hotspot of Bristol’s Wapping Wharf continues on its brilliant trajectory with this reincarnation of the former Tare restaurant that operated in this same set of shipping containers. Now a more relaxed and attractively priced affair, Tare Bistro is a Bib Gourmand through and through, thanks to straightforward dishes that demonstrate the kitchen’s technical prowess and knack for flavours.”